Weather
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The hurricane made landfall near Tulum, registering a 986mb pressure reading.
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While the total number of hurricanes has not changed significantly, the global proportion of major hurricanes has increased over the past 40 years.
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The tropical depression looks set to hit the Sunshine State in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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NHC says the weather system is likely to threaten Florida by the weekend.
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The German insurance association called the low-pressure system Bernd ‘one of the most devastating in recent history’.
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The deaths were reported in the town of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, south of Bonn and west of the Rhine river.
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The storm was the earliest named E storm, forming nearly six weeks earlier than average.
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A spell of tornadoes, rain and hailstorms across the continent drove the loss activity.
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It hit north of Tampa, and storm surge warnings for wider Gulf Coast were discontinued.
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It was upgraded to a category one hurricane by the National Hurricane Centre last night before being downgraded in a public advisory at 2am (EDT).
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It said the current threat posed by Tropical Storm Elsa was an example of storms being more likely to hit America’s Eastern Seaboard this season.
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Executives including AIG CEO Peter Zaffino, Aon CEO Greg Case and Munich Re CEO Joachim Wenning have joined the task force, chaired by Lloyd’s.
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